I am a PhD theology student at Ave Maria University in Florida, where I study systematic and biblical theology. Originally from Washington State, I arrived in Florida in the summer of 2022, after having studied in Trumau, Austria, at the (Pontifical) ITI Catholic University for four years. While in Austria, I received theology licentiate and master's degrees from this institute. I began my academic journey at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California, studying theology and philosophy alongside the humanities and liberal arts.
My academic writing has appeared in The Aquinas Review, The Downside Review, and The Heythrop Journal. My pop…
I am a PhD theology student at Ave Maria University in Florida, where I study systematic and biblical theology. Originally from Washington State, I arrived in Florida in the summer of 2022, after having studied in Trumau, Austria, at the (Pontifical) ITI Catholic University for four years. While in Austria, I received theology licentiate and master's degrees from this institute. I began my academic journey at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California, studying theology and philosophy alongside the humanities and liberal arts.
My academic writing has appeared in The Aquinas Review, The Downside Review, and The Heythrop Journal. My popular work may be found in the Homiletic and Pastoral Review and VoegelinView. My published and in-review writings have centered on Saint Thomas Aquinas's theology and philosophy, especially in the traditions of Laval Thomism and Aristotelian Thomism. My special topics have been focused on the Blessed Virgin Mary and sacramental theology, though I also write on late Patristics, particularly Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Saint Augustine of Hippo.
The coursework for my PhD in Theology was completed in the spring of 2024, and I will, hopefully, finish my comprehensive exams by the end of May 2025. Prior to coming to Florida, I have specialized in sacramental theology and theological exegesis in the Thomistic tradition of sacred theology. However, I plan to write my PhD dissertation on the philosophical and theological principles of the Mariology of Charles De Koninck, the leader of Laval Thomism and a seminal figure in 20th-century Thomism.